black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

Woodrow Wilson

It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSON

Born Hard Leadership Palace
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
WOODROW WILSON

Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
WOODROW WILSON

Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy Design Government Hands Interest People
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSON

Day Lose Myself Reason Win
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
WOODROW WILSON

Desire Peace Spiritual
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
WOODROW WILSON

Benefit Humiliation Segregation
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
WOODROW WILSON

Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
WOODROW WILSON

Luxury Man Music National Need
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
WOODROW WILSON

Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSON

Business Empty God Life National Spiritual Stomach Worship
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
WOODROW WILSON

Government Help Man Representation Willing
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Man Sacred War
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
WOODROW WILSON

Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand

I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Woodrow Wilson Quotes